WoT2: My "well, shit" was actually pretty sincere. I had very much wanted bessie to take that lynch. My scummates don't know who each other are, and I'm afraid that Sabrar thought I was trying to save a teammate from the lynch. This puts me in a *much* more awkward situation, and h...

Well, shit. So far as it goes, it wasn't *just* his mentioning the possibility of the red ajah being mafia. It was that he had multiple things trying to direct our attention to the reds, including his "Definitely from like book 9 or so" spoiler which was just flat out wrong. The fact that ...

Ok, I just did a re-read. Those comps take a heck of a lot out of me, so I apologize if this turns out to be less conherent than I hope. First, quick respose to ahippo's question on scumhunting. My attempts at it usually boil down to my looking for inconsistencies and things that don't make sense gi...

Hi, all! My competition went well! I'm home later than I'd intended, so this'll be some relatively brief off-the-cuff comments about the stuff that I'm seeing directly related to me. Hopefully I'll get another post in tomorrow focusing on the rest that happened while I was out. Reactions to my list:...

Ok, this will likely be my last post until Saturday evening (US central time), so I thought I'd post a town-to-scum list. Unfortunately, I don't feel like I have any truly strong scum leads yet, so there's a fair amount of, "eh, they look ok, I guess, maybe?" But this is where my mind is r...

Another possibility for bessie - she's a townie trying to stir things up hoping to get us information we can use to make an informed D1 lynch. Beyond that, I'm generally concerned with the specificity of somewhat unusual roles in Bessie's setup speculation. How about sharing your setup speculation? ...

Also, Elaida disbanded the blue ajah after her coup. At least up to where I am in the books, there were simply no Blues that stayed to remain in an Elaida-ruled tower. She kept trying to convince Blues to come back, convinced that it undermined the unity of the tower to have an Ajah totally opposed...

WoT2: So, here's something fun: I am the leader of the black Ajah. Now, the real kicker is that this is the first time I've ever started the game as scum (I was recruited by a cult late-ish in Dr. Who) ... and my faction has no chat abilities. So I can't rely on my vastly more ex...

Six out of seven Ajahs recommend Colgate Total getting rid of darkfriends! Now, this is a curious statement. I'm pretty sure all seven [official] ajahs would be completely down with getting rid of darkfriends. (For the flavorblind, the official ajahs are blue, red, green, white, grey, brown and yel...

*folds his arms beneath his breasts and sniffs* Vote: dimochka for voting for the Creator. Obvious darkfriend move. Oh, wait. Sabrar already did that. unvote @Sabrar: I've played a handful of games here on xkcd, but that's it. I consider myself only slightly more than a complete newbie. It's still n...

Wheel of Time 2: The White Tower http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=51027 Description: Standard Mafia game, set in the Wheel of Time universe, around the time of books 4-5. Mod: jimbobmacdoodle, co-mod: SDK, kalira Speed: 5-7 days, 1 day nights (possibly pseudo-nightless). Day deadlines wi...

Sometimes, parts of a slowly-rising mountain suddenly rises REALLY fast, which is extra interesting. One of those plurals needs to be a singular. It turns out to be really hard to write a post nitpicking language without discrediting yourself with at least one error. It is known. Yours is that, in ...

Fair enough. Mostly it was just to let people date at younger than 14, because I'm not too much older than that myself and can assure you that 13 yr olds dating isn't creepy. The difficulty of calculation is a valid point though. With the 90 yr old and the 52 yr old, we're not giving a formula for ...

On a completely unrelated matter, I've been taking dance classes. Never thought I'd say this, but dancing is quite a lot of fun :D Turns out that dancing is like a weird social parasite that latches onto your life, kills all your existing hobbies and relationships, and replaces them with dancing an...

I'd expect R1 to come before IV, since that's where it's set chronologically and, unlike II and III, it doesn't really serve as a flashback of anything between V and VI. Kinda weird to start a series off with characters you're never going to see again, though. I suspect the thing to do is going to ...

I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but in what world is choosing someone with the moniker 'Mad Dog' for Secretary of Defence a good idea? Don't read too much into the nickname, he's actually a pretty heartening pick: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/12/01/mattis_is_reportedl...

Of course there is always the fact that the modern western diet trains us to place high value on sweetness. Older generations probably found the Red Delicious perfectly tasty, otherwise they wouldn't have named it so. It is not the breed's fault that our palates have changed. You may be barking up ...

And they're what an awful lot of people grew up with, so they're what people *expect* apples to be and to look like. So far as it goes, there are other modern cultivars like the honeycrisp. (For example, the sweetango.) I haven't tried them, but I assume they're also fall on the right hand side of t...

The comparison drawn was to the twitter thing. Obviously that's going to be public. It's not really the same thing. It's just a crap example. As for the rest, I'm really quite tired of talking about emails, if my previous post didn't make that plain enough. We've already beaten to death why those t...

Yes, vastly worse. Clinton was stupid and careless. Petraeus deliberately and consciously leaked classified information. Those are worlds apart in the security world. There's a reason that Clinton wasn't prosecuted and Petraeus had to plea bargain down from a felony charge. And it's not that Comey w...

So, Petraeus is apparently being batted around as a candidate for State. For the record, he actually *is* guilty of criminal mishandling of classified information. I mean, don't get me wrong - he'd be a hugely better candidate than Guiliani. (And hopefully he's learned his lesson about what a bad id...

Like...he's mentioned, but it's not as if he's terribly important to the initial series. I don't think having seen the original series, or read the original books, contributes significantly to the story told here. Yeah, it's kinda cool that they're obstensibly in the same universe, but end of day, ...

Of course my opinion does not particularly matter for this as an outsider who is not direct part of the tensions. But I still wanted to point out that I don't think anybody thinks people only voted for him because of isms, but there is a point after which not considering something a dealbreaker is ...

Of course my opinion does not particularly matter for this as an outsider who is not direct part of the tensions. But I still wanted to point out that I don't think anybody thinks people only voted for him because of isms, but there is a point after which not considering something a dealbreaker is ...

Because your friend's car was vandalized doesn't mean that it was right for the other protesters to destroy other cars. Did I say it was? My objection isn't to the idea that the violent protesters are in the wrong - it's to the idea that they would make you glad that Trump won. I mean, it would be ...

And honestly, these jackholes make me glad that Trump won. Because fuck violent protesters. :roll: How about the jackholes like the ones who have been attacking my friends' kids for being brown or vandalizing their cars for having a Bernie bumper sticker? I'm not intending to excuse the violent pro...

I don't know. I realize things look differently to those on the right, but from where I sat, it sure seemed like the way that it would work during his first term would be that Obama would make a good faith effort to start with offers that were a good compromise and then get frustrated when Republica...

So what do y'all think the chances are that Trump will actually push the trial thing (assuming no pardon or anything of the sort)? I was pretty sure that it's just political posturing, especially considering his tone afterwards, and the fact that before he ran he never seemed to particularly hate t...

Sanders, even if he doesn't run himself next time, obviously has some appeal. Democrats have got to leverage that. As I said up-thread, he'll be too old to run again. But I absolutely agree that the next candidate has to be from the Bernie-supporting wing of the party. But experience isn't really l...